Waiting for a task to complete, can be boring. Photo: Kome 8 / Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/kome8/

There is only one relief for the pain of a long running command – a progress indicator, but commands only may or may not show their progress – and this is by design. They are good at one thing, and through regular pipes, the data …

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Update 2021: This post mentions deprecated Facebook API calls and concepts So Facebook decided to change the meaning of the locale parameter to the search parts of the Graph API – and label the decision “by design” after 2 months …

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